The Downfall of a Mass Murderer: Death of Vladimir Putin’s Former Cook and Crony

death of the mass murderer. It was to be expected. But it still took two months: On June 24, Vladimir Putin’s former cook, who had bloodily worked his way up to become one of the Kremlin ruler’s most important cronies with the appalling atrocities he committed with his Wagner mercenary troupe, rehearsed the uprising against Moscow – and lost. As is well known, Prigozhin and his cronies turned off halfway to the Russian capital during this “March of Justice”. While it was assumed worldwide that Prigozhin would not be able to survive this attempted uprising, it was initially said that he had withdrawn to Belarus, and recently photos had appeared that were supposed to show the mercenary leader currently in Africa. On Wednesday evening, the reports from Russia rolled over: A plane with ten passengers had crashed on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Prigozhin was also on the passenger list, it said. The plane, the private jet of the mass murderer, had been shot down, one quickly heard, followed by the death report, then again the relativization, the next confirmation… Rarely did one have to mourn one less dead person.